A man in Southeast China was brought to the hospital at midnight after having noticed that a ball-shaped bump fell from his anus while he was on the toilet. The doctors said the swelling was attached to his dorsal side when he got to the hospital and they immediately realized it was his rectum.
How did that happen?
The doctors also said that this unfortunate incident, called in medical terms rectal prolapse, could have been caused by the fact that the man stayed on the toilet for more than 30 minutes
The man told the doctors that he indeed stayed for more than half an hour as he was playing games on his mobile phone while trying to take a poop.
The incident occurred in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China, on February 4th. The patient, who wanted his identity to remain anonymous, was in a very serious condition.
The man was suffering from a severe rectal prolapse
According to the medical staff, the mand has also suffered from a milder form of rectal prolapse when he was four years old, but he got better so never thought to treat the condition. If such a condition is not treated in time, the situation could become even worse.
An ultrasound showed that the swelling that fell from the patient’s body was 16 centimeters in diameter and presented tissues and pieces of the patient’s intestinal wall.
The doctor who treated the man said that rectal prolapse usually occurs in young and old people, and very rarely in people who are in a good physical condition because the rectum prolapse condition is mainly caused by the weakening of the rectal muscles.
What are the rectum prolapse causes?
Rectum prolapse is usually caused by multiple factors, among which the most common are rectal muscle weakening, long-term constipation or diarrhea, chiastic fibrosis, convulsive cough, multiple sclerosis, and paralysis. Also, pregnant women are prone to rectum prolapse during labor if they present muscle weakness and stress.